August Spies Quotes

• But, if you think that by hanging us, you can stamp out the labor movement - the movement from which the downtrodden millions, the millions who toil and live in want and misery - the wage slaves - expect salvation - if this is your opinion, then hang us! Here you will tread upon a spark, but there, and there, and behind you and in front of you, and everywhere, flames will blaze up. It is a subterranean fire. You cannot put it out.

  August Spies

  Work, Thinking, Flames

  Address of August Spies. "The Accused the Accusers: Famous Speeches of the Chicago Anarchists in Court", www.chicagohistoryresources.org. 1886.

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• The time will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today.

  August Spies

  Powerful, Struggle, Voice

  "America's Second Century: Readings in United States History Since 1877". Book by Kenneth G. Alfers, p. 43, 1993.

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• You may pronounce the sentence upon me, honourable judge, but let the world know that in A.D. 1886, in the State of Illinois, eight men were sentenced to death because they believed in a better future; because they had not lost their faith in the ultimate victory of liberty and justice!

  August Spies

  Faith, Death, Future

  Address of August Spies. "The Accused the Accusers: Famous Speeches of the Chicago Anarchists in Court", www.chicagohistoryresources.org. 1886.

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• Anarchism does not mean bloodshed; it does not mean robbery, arson, etc. These monstrosities are, on the contrary, the characteristic features of capitalism. Anarchism means peace and tranquility to all.

  August Spies

  Mean, Doe, Arson

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• I knew from experience of the past that this butchering of people was done for the express purpose of defeating the eight-hour movement.

  August Spies

  Struggle, Past, Eight

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